WEBVTT MARVIN MARKLE.HE WAS THEIR PRIMARY SUSPECT IN1982, AND HIS ARREST COULD BETHE FIRST SIGNS OF CLOSURE FORDE ANNA'S FAMILY IN MORE THAN 3DECADES.>> TODAY IS THE DAY THAT DE ANNA'S FAMILY THOUGHT WOULD NEVERCOME.MAX: BUT TODAY, THEY SEE HOPE ONTHE VERIZON.>>-- ON THE HORIZON.>> AND FINALLY, JUSTICE.MAX:JUSTICE FOR THE WOMAN THEYSAY WAS MURDERED AFTER GOING TOA PARTY IN 1980 TWO.HER CASE WENT COLD, BUT AFTERMORE THAN THREE DECADES, THEYBELIEVE THE 51-YEAR-OLD MARVINMARKLE IS RESPONSIBLE.SOMETIMES PEOPLE SHARE WITHPEOPLE AND CONFIDE IN THEM OVERTHE YEARS, AND THAT HAPPENS, ANDWE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY HIM.THEY ARE POTENTIAL WITNESSES INOUR CASE.MAX: POLICE ARRESTEDHIM ATPRISON, WHERE HE IS FOR THEMURDER OF ANOTHER WOMAN.A LIEUTENANT WAS AT THE TRIALFOR THAT MURDER, AND IT WASADDED TO THE EVIDENCE IN THETRIAL FOR DE ANNA'S MURDER.LIEUTENANT: WE ARE ABLE TOTESTIFY IS SOMETHING REFERENCEDTO THE VACAVILLE CASE.MAX: HE IS DUE AT 8:30 A.M. INJUVENILE COURT.HE WAS 17 AT THE TIME OF THATMURDER.HE WIL NEED TO BE TRIED THEREBEFORE MOVING TO ADULT COURT.>> AND THEN, THERE WILL BE WHATIS CALLED A "TRANSFERHEARING"TO TRANSFER HIM TO ADULT COURT.MAX: THE FAMILY CLAIMS MEMORIES

Thirty-four years after a Vacaville girl was found dead, police have arrested a man in connection with her killing which stunned the community, officials announced Wednesday.

Marvin Ray Markle, 51, was taken into custody Tuesday morning on a murder charge in connection with De Anna Lynn Johnson's 1982 death, Vacaville police said. Markle was 17 years old at the time of the killing.

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De Anna attended a party on Nov. 15, 1982 at a neighbor's home on Royal Oaks Drive in Vacaville, but when she didn't return home, her mother called police the next day to report her missing.

De Anna's body was found the next day near Downtown Square on Elmira Road.

Detectives discovered that Markle, a student at Vacaville High School, and De Anna, a student at then-Will C. Wood Junior High School, both attended the party, where there was drugs and alcohol. The pair spoke at the gathering, but were not friends before that, Detective Matt Lydon said at a Wednesday news conference.

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Several days after De Anna's death, Markle was identified as a suspect. However, the case went cold as detectives spent thousands of hours trying to find her killer, police said.

Markle moved to Butte County in the early 1990s, and years later, Vacaville detectives learned that he was a primary suspect in the 2001 homicide of Shirley Pratt in Butte County.

Vacaville police and the Butte County Sheriff's Department collaborated over many years until Markle's arrest in July 2013.

Markle was convicted in the Butte County murder and sentenced to 80 years in prison.

Vacaville police issued an arrest warrant in January for Markle, and he was arrested Tuesday at Kern Valley State Prison for De Anna's murder, the police department said. He has since been booked into the Solano County Jail.

"It has been a long, hard and emotional struggle to face each day of the 34 years while De Anna's murderer has walked free and lived life," Dimpel said. "We miss her very much, relying on the happy memories, and live on knowing that De Anna believed in God because of rainbows, but we believe in God because of De Anna."

A motive in this case has not been released. There is no real connection between De Anna's killing and the Butte County murder, other than the fact that both victims were women and Markle made no attempt to hide either body, Lydon said.

Since Markle was not yet 18 years old when he allegedly killed De Anna, he will be tried as a juvenile and then will have a transfer hearing to move him to adult court.

If convicted, Markle's sentence in De Anna's case will be tacked on to the 80 years he's already serving from Pratt's case.